What if someone donned a costume and fought crime like the superheroes found in the pages of comic books? That is what average high school student (and comic book fan) Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) asks at the beginning of Kick-Ass. Although this topic has been tackled before — most notably in Watchmen and Special — Kick-Ass handlesContinue Reading
American construction workers building a harbor on a Caribbean island get a surprise when their explosives uncover the bodies of two dinosaurs that have been frozen in suspended animation. Seeing potential in displaying the pair of million-year-old, perfectly preserved creatures, head construction honcho, Bart (Ward Ramsey), has the bodies draggedContinue Reading
Taking place in 2154, Avatar introduces us to the Na’vi, a race of 10-foot-tall feline-like creatures who live in spiritual harmony with their forest planet of Pandora. Humans have traveled to Pandora after plundering the natural resources of Earth. So far, the Na’vi have resisted the infiltration of the humansContinue Reading
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is an efficiency expert for Federal Express. He travels all over the world to analyze shipping and sorting operations at various terminals for the company. Back home in Memphis, he has a girlfriend, Kelly (Helen Hunt), whom he sees in between jaunts from one end ofContinue Reading
Before the innovations of Industrial Light and Magic and other groundbreaking special effects companies elevated the science fiction movie from B-movie status to blockbuster, movies like The Land That Time Forgot were considered to be as good-as-it-gets for the genre for quite some time. Released in 1975, the movie isContinue Reading
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is yet another movie franchise based on a Hasbro toy line but it improves on this summer’s other toy-related blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, by telling a coherent story. Other than that, though, it’s about as mindless. G.I. J.O.E. – which is an acronym forContinue Reading
Today, director Sam Raimi is well-known for his Spider-Man trilogy but in 1990, when Darkman was released, he was best-known for his quirky horror films Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Wanting to broaden his appeal with film-goers, he created Darkman and made his first superhero film. It was entertainingContinue Reading